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Astronauts drink their recycled urine

Access to fresh water is difficult in space. The American astronauts at the International Space Station will further recover their water through recycling and recycling using the Blue Water Recovery System, which NASA has introduced in 2009. As its name implies, this system allows astronauts to reuse more of the water that the body loses through sweat and urine, or brushing or making coffee.